bamfly

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by bamfly 3y ago
Yeah, I know there exist high-paying PHP jobs, it's just that finding a PHP job that pays as much as Swift or C# or Java or Javascript or [insert almost anything else here] is usually relatively challenging. I don't mean that th
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by bamfly 3y ago
Now you have to build or configure a system for spinning those up and down at the command of anonymous visitors to your website. Or eat the cost of running a whole bunch of them all the time. And test that system. And monitor it. And secure
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by bamfly 3y ago
Then you don't get updates/fixes. And may need to edit the code after acquiring it, to stop license checks. And you'll need to go to the effort of extracting the relevant files from the environment in the browser. Overall...
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by bamfly 3y ago
The customer support and testing are key challenges. You have to be ready to help people with things that aren't even your fault if you don't want your rating on the marketplace(s) to go to shit. Plus you'll need to do lots o
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by bamfly 3y ago
Any competitor has a nasty chicken/egg problem to overcome. Wordpress is still hard to avoid because there's a plugin—usually with paid support available—that can do damn near anything. The codebase isn't great, developing ag
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by bamfly 3y ago
Wordpress operates a plugin & theme marketplace. This could be very nice as a way to demo those products without adding meaningful infrastructure development and operational expenses. [EDIT]: Very nice for WP/Automattic and the p
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by bamfly 3y ago
Are you... asking when you'll get a feature in PHP while not knowing it employs sigils on variable names?
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by bamfly 3y ago
Wordpress is one of those things I've plenty of experience with, but leave off my résumé and avoid mentioning to bosses and colleagues, so I won't get roped into that bullshit if it comes up—and it often does , sooner or later. &
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by bamfly 3y ago
At smaller companies, at least, my observation has been that frontend (in fact, design , even if unable to write code) seemed to have a big leg-up on positive visibility among important stakeholders, clients, owners, and managers, and to h
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by bamfly 3y ago
My outsider perspective is that the military trains its members in leadership skills[1] at practically every level, because modern great-power approaches to warfare rely on heavy devolution of decision-making and leadership such that leader
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by bamfly 3y ago
DoubleClick got an even better deal, acquiring Google for -$3.1 billion ('08 dollars)
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by bamfly 3y ago
> I submit that a present-day conservative would likely be a staunch liberal in those days. The Left has simply moved much further to the left. ... on social issues . The mainstream left and right, as far as those in power, remain about
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by bamfly 3y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Name_of_the_Rose (it's a mystery, so careful reading too much about it before picking up the book...) and https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/915&#x
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by bamfly 3y ago
You default-deny all source IPs, then allowlist your CDN's IPs on your "origin server" or its network's firewall box (if you have such a thing). Is the usual way to solve this problem, anyway, IDK if that's what the
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by bamfly 3y ago
The background can usefully affect one's choice of whether, and how, to engage. In this case, the post already was pretty poor, on its own merits, as has been pretty well covered all over this thread. The added info took it from poor
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by bamfly 3y ago
Where's the energy going , supposedly? I'd assumed "the light's losing energy" had been firmly ruled out long ago—it was a potential explanation that occurred to me the very first time I heard about the observed re
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by bamfly 3y ago
Ah, OK, I see the distinction you intended now. Thanks.
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by bamfly 3y ago
Oh, I agree it's complex and there are meaningful differences in how the whole pregnancy thing is experienced, and that the needs of kids maybe should override weird selfish libertarian-adjacent "pft, totally unfair to make m
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by bamfly 3y ago
> It's just funny that you have to mention this is a question even if a question mark exists. It shows how much toxic people got instead of understanding others. Excessively-defensive Internet writing style. You have to make everyth
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by bamfly 3y ago
It is my wholly-uninformed WAG hypothesis that lots of sorts of infections cause long-term changes and problems—we just don't usually make the connection between the illness and the later trouble. Like, if I had to bet money on it,
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by bamfly 3y ago
Yeah, I read that part and was like... but I remember reading & hearing pretty damn early in the pandemic that a fairly high percentage of infections are asymptomatic, and continuing to see that stated periodically and never (that I r
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by bamfly 3y ago
Big advocate. They're awesome. Main downside is reversals are 1) another surgery—and maybe not covered by insurance—and 2) often fail. Not a great option if you do want kids, just not right now . I guess that's the not-a-free-lun
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by bamfly 3y ago
> If men do not want kids, it is easy for them not to. Weird to see the "your CHOICE was when you CHOSE to have sex!" anti-abortion argument re-purposed in this way, but, OK.
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by bamfly 3y ago
> So no, empirically, it appears likely that people are not capable of understanding "once daily". Hilariously, almost all of the "failure rate" of vasectomies is due to people who don't follow the doctor'
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by bamfly 3y ago
Interesting. Thanks for the very-complete response—may have to change up my LI strategy.
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by bamfly 3y ago
> Now, my UUCP job is nearly done. The latest installment of “The elves of Borimir” is out and my phone line is getting tied up watching you bozos hate on furries. Hey, furries are awesome. They're tough bastards and I (and I am not
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by bamfly 3y ago
I am reading the surface level, in which your described compensation for overtime work is an advantage at promotion time. Again: are these workers being offered overtime pay, and refusing it?
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by bamfly 3y ago
> It is very common for people to immediately sign off for the day the minute their work day/shift is over and not do anything else after. If people want to do that then sure they can, but they also trade off the ability to earn rai
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by bamfly 3y ago
Two decades ago was near the end of that Windows-malware peak. And really, if you were behind a NAT two decades ago, that would have stopped nearly all of it, so you might not have noticed how bad it was unless you were supporting a lot of
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by bamfly 3y ago
... because it supervises and scrutinizes "traffic" coming through the "gate" for security reasons, before letting it inside the "walls" where it might do harm? Like a gatekeeper does?

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